incidence_rates: Compute crude incidence rates

In cancerradarr: Cancer RADAR Project Tool

Compute crude incidence rates

Description

Compute crude incidence rates

Usage

incidence_rates(ncan, py, ncan.min = 5)

Arguments

ncan	integer, number of cancer
py	integer, number of person-year
ncan.min	integer, minimum number of observation required not to mask the CI's out Crude incidence rates and associated 95% confidence interval are computing assuming a Poisson distribution and the exact method.

Value

a 3 column data.frame containing the crude incidence rate estimate (est) and associated 95% CI (lci, uci)

References

Boyle P, Parkin DM. Cancer registration: principles and methods. Statistical methods for registries. IARC Sci Publ. 1991;(95):126-58. PMID: 1894318.

See Also

epitools::pois.exact()

Examples

ncan <- c(1, 10, 100)
py <- c(10, 100, 1000)
incidence_rates(ncan, py, 5)

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